A plan by Democratic North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue to compensate women who were forcibly sterilized by the state was struck down by Republican legislators on Thursday, according to the Associated Press. Perdue created a $10 million fund with the intent of paying each sterilized woman $50,000. The plan passed…
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